Blueberry Yogurt Morning Cake

This is a favorite recipe of one of my favorite authors, Shauna Niequist. She writes about finding the perfect blueberries and all the fond memories she has with this cake growing up. Her mom made it a lot.

It is delightful.

Despite the name, you do not have to reserve this for breakfast.

You can feel better about eating it because one of the main ingredients is yogurt.

We got a last minute dinner invite, and I was already planning on making this as part of our dinner, so I made it.

Everybody seemed to like it. There was lemon on hand, and a few people squirted some lemon juice on top of it and enjoyed it that way.

I try a lot of recipes. Most of them I do not use again. That is my saving grace; we try a lot of things, but we only have to eat it once if it is not good.

This one is a keeper, though.

It serves 10-12.


Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter softened, plus more for the pan
1 cup sugar, plus 2 tablespoons for the berries
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 tsp. almond extract
2 cups all purpose flour - Or you can nix the next two ingredient and just use self-rising flour.
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups of fresh blueberries washed and drained

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10-inch springform pan, and line it with parchment paper. (I did not use this type of pan because I do not have one. I just used a regular baking pan.)

In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar, eggs, yogurt, and almond extract. Mix well.

Add flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and with a wooden spoon, mix by hand until combined. Be careful to not over mix.

Pour the batter into the springform. Toss the berries with the two tablespoons sugar, and then spread them over the batter.

Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until a fork comes out clean when inserted in the center.

Let the cake cool for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cake plate or stand.

If not serving the cake that day, after cooling, cover the springform pan (to not dry out). Do not remove from the pan until right before serving.